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The DDR development cycle that ran from March to September 2021 focused on the first two sections of the above project charter:
Improve object and metadata download functionality from Public and Staff apps
Fix and update the DDR-->ArchivesSpace feature
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Staff can now export any type of content from DDR via the DDR staff interface (including derivative formats); the data will be exported to a CIFS server where it can be downloaded and moved to Box or FTP or however the data needs to be delivered. Instructions are available on confluence (please send farrell, Maggie and/or Molly feedback if you have it).
End users can now export pdfs of items that include more than 100 components (images for example) from the DDR public interface, for . For an example see this Early Manuscript item.
End Digital Collections end users can also now download file types that we do not have in-browser viewers for like PDFs(such as PDFs) that don’t display in the in-browser viewer. For an example see this item.
Completed stories related to export/download
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The goal of revisiting the DDR-->ArchivesSpace feature was to fix a feature deployed by DUL developers deployed ca. 2018-2019, but that which broke when we moved ArchivesSpace from a locally-hosted project to one hosted by Lyrasis. Updating this feature allows RLTS staff to automate linking between items in Digital Collections and description in ArchivesSpace. Additional work may be undertaken in the future to link digital objects outside of Digital Collections to description in ArchivesSpace using this connector.
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